In my previous question here I posted the xml I am trying to serialize. Here is another XML example:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="XXXXXXXXXX" Guid="{YYYYYYYY}" />
<EventID>XYZ</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>L</Level>
<Task>A</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x000xyzh</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-28T15:44:04.997837000Z" />
<EventRecordID>153</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{DDDDDDDDD}" />
<Execution ProcessID="199999" ThreadID="90990" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-ABCDEFG/Admin</Channel>
<Computer>myPC</Computer>
<Security UserID="ABCABC" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="name1">data1</Data>
<Data Name="name2">data2</Data>
<Data Name="name3">data3</Data>
<ComplexData Name="XYZXYZ">0C004300310022002D004400460053005400450053002200310003004E0053003200230041002D00570041002D00320045004400000047006C002900620061006C0048006900670068005000720069006F007200240074006600120044006100730087000000000000000000000000000000</ComplexData>
</EventData>
<RenderingInfo Culture="en-US">
<Message>some message </Message>
<Level>Information</Level>
<Task>XYZ</Task>
<Opcode>Info</Opcode>
<Channel />
<Provider />
<Keywords>
<Keyword>XYZ</Keyword>
</Keywords>
</RenderingInfo>
</Event>
One difference is that it has Complex Data which is a struct that defines an array of integer values (lengths of following strings ...etc) and string unicodes. I figured out a way to decode that string by byte by byte but I need a cleaner way to do that. If EventRecord.ToXml() is not the best way to get the event payload including complex data / structs/ arrays then what is the best way to get that. There are a lot of Windows Event related classes on msdn and I do not know which one to use.
Thanks
EDIT: Here is some sample of what I knwo about ComplexData:
<data
inType="win:UInt16"
name="XYZLength"
/>
<data
inType="win:UnicodeString"
length="XYZLength"
name="XYZ"
/>
Which means that the first two bytes (lower endian format) are the length of the following unicode string and so on. And for the ones that have no length, I need to find the null termination which is 16 bits of zeros (2 bytes of zeros).